Chris Sinha
Visiting professor
Linguistics and Phonetics
Centre for Languages and Literature
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Chris Sinha
Chris Sinha is currently Visiting Professor at the Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (Linguistics and Phonetics). He gained his BA in Developmental Psychology at the University of Sussex and his doctorate at the University of Utrecht. Before moving to Lund in 2011, Chris taught in departments of Education, Psychology, and Language and Communication, in Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark and India, including two previous positions at full professor rank.
He is an experienced plenary lecturer at international conferences and has been a lecturer at many graduate and research schools. He is currently President of International Cognitive Linguistics Association, and General Editor of the journal Language and Cognition.
Research
Chris's central research interest is in the relations between language, cognition and culture, and a main aim of his research is to integrate cognitive linguistic with socio-cultural approaches to language and communication. He is experienced in field experimental and observational methods in human development. He has published widely in many disciplines, including anthropology, linguistics, education, evolutionary biology, connection science, as well as developmental and cultural psychology.
Editorship (1)
Articles (2)
- Sinha, C. (2011). A life without time. New Scientist, 211, 47-47. Reed Business Information Ltd.
- Sinha, C., da Silva Sinha, V., Zinken, J. & Sampaio, W. (2011). When time is not space: the social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture. Language and Cognition, 3, 137-169.
Book chapters (3)
- da Silva Sinha, V., Sinha, C., Wany, S. & Joerg, Z. (2012). Event-based time intervals in an Amazonian culture. In Filipović, L. & Jaszczolt, K. (Eds.) Space and Time in Languages and Cultures Language, Culture, and Cognition (pp. 15-35). John Benjamins.
- Sinha, C. (2012). (Dis-)Continuity, (inter-)corporeality and conventionality in dialogical development. In Bertau, M., Gonçalves, M. & Raggatt, P. (Eds.) Dialogic formations: nvestigations into the origins and development of the dialogical self (pp. 145-153). Information Age Publishing.
- Sinha, C. (2011). Iconology and imagination in human development: explorations in sociogenetic economies. In Geertz, A. & Jensen, J. (Eds.) Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative (pp. 97-116). Equinox Publishing.
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